linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/34] 3.4.59-stable review

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Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:43:52 -0600
From:	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@....de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"shuahkhan@...il.com" <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [ 00/34] 3.4.59-stable review

On 08/20/2013 10:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:53:24AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 07:36:00AM +0000, Berg, Johannes wrote:
>>>>>> [ 26/34] genetlink: fix family dump race
>>>>>
>>>>> Johannes, another strike against this patch :(
>>>>>
>>>>> Any chance on fixing it upstream and me sucking that fix in?
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I'm trying to get that, but it's not clear to me how to fix it.
>>>> Where did you apply it? It was going to need some fixes but when the
>>>> first objection was raised I figured you were going to drop it for now
>>>> completely? Sorry for the mess :-(
>>>
>>> You're right, I'll drop this for 3.4, it doesn't make sense there.
>>
>> And you'll drop it from 3.0 and 3.10 also, I hope?
>
> It wasn't in 3.0, was it?  Oh crap, it was...
>
> 3.10, I'd rather have the "real" fix that ends up resolving the issue in
> Linus's tree also, instead of just dropping it.
>
> Especially as I just did the releases...
>

3.10 worked fine with no issues with this fix. I couldn't test 3.0 on 
this system because 3.4 is the minimum for my test system.

-- Shuah

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Shuah Khan
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Samsung Research America(Silicon Valley)
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